Warne had done enough in his career to retire on his own terms and retired at pretty much the ultimate time, a 5-0 drubbing against the old enemy, it can't be sweeter than that. Is Huss, a lover of cricket going to sit back when he's older and going to regret that he finished off against SL instead of testing himself again against India and England, yes IMO.

Yeah I reckon he will for sure. Was probably stressed from six months of fairly continuous cricket (i think?) and putting his feet up for a bit before India would have been enough

For the record, feel free to check, but I was in the crowd saying Hussey should be dropped in '09, possibly before the Oval Test. That said, what became apparent fairly quickly was that there was noone to replace him because there was no-one putting serious pressure on his spot. The young blokes in line for his spot didn't look like Test players and the guys who were scoring in Shield cricket were 30+, hardly the foundations of a youthful rebuild of the team. Hussey dropping back to 6 meant he could at least play a role no-one else was up to and that he did. It's not his fault that 3 years on there are still blokes who don't look up to it and, even with the dearth of decent bats in the country, there should be some sense that a bloke has earnt his spot in the Test side.

You can't just pick young blokes under the pretense of 'investing' in them unless they have performances behind them or obviously have the game to survive playing Tests. Tests are a harsh place to develop your game.

Hussey's form up to his career saving Oval effort was poor to dropable. It didn't get much better until he saved his own life again with an fc ton before the 1st test in 2010/11. You are right that we didn't have many replacements but people were dropped during the time of Hussey's run drought. He managed to dodge the bullets though and defined himself as a man who could score runs for the benefit of his average. He could have been dropped and yet still treated better than Hughes or Katich or even Usman. A man of his ambition may then have fought his way back into the side and still have enough of it to play Eng now. If not we still would have been a few more years into rebuilding than we are now. Shouldve been gone by 09.

Not that anyone said that. Apart from you. Come to think of it no one said the 3rd sentence either. Apart from you.

Galle was a road though. You got that right. Go and tell mum what a clever boy you are.

So basically you've decided to complete change the argument after bringing up competely rubbish pieces of evidence - you were given clear examples of where Hussey's runs had helped the team and you dismissed them. Your argument that Hussey did not score useful runs for the team is complete nonsense and only holds up if you completely discard huge amounts of cricket this team played.

And on that, you didn't watch Galle, did you? At all.

Last edited by Spark; 07-01-2013 at 11:39 PM.

do you think people will be allowed to make violins?
who's going to make the violins?

So basically you've decided to complete change the argument after bringing up competely rubbish pieces of evidence - you were given clear examples of where Hussey's runs had helped the team and you dismissed them. Your argument that Hussey did not score useful runs for the team is complete nonsense and only holds up if you completely discard huge amounts of cricket this team played.

And on that, you didn't watch Galle, did you? At all.

I just basically told you to stop making stuff up. If you reckon I've said something wrong then address it directly. Don't put words in my mouth and then exclaim A HA! Gotcha!